The Islamic State group's Afghan branch has been "defeated" in one of the key eastern provinces where it first sought to establish a stronghold, a top Afghan security official said Sunday. The claim comes after the jihadists first burst into Afghanistan's conflict in 2015, when they overran...

Suspected separatist insurgents stormed a security checkpoint in Thailand's Muslim-majority south and killed at least 15 people, including a police officer and many village defence volunteers, security officials said Wednesday. It was the worst single attack in years in a restive region...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least six civilians were killed and twenty more wounded in regime airstrikes on opposition areas in northern Aleppo province, activists said Wednesday.     At least 20 others, including 7 children and 4 women, were also wounded in the attack in the...

The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on nine aides to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the 40th anniversary of revolutionary zealots seizing the US embassy in Tehran. The United States said it was also offering a $20 million reward for information to find Robert...